Sailboat Reflection

Sailboat Reflection

WELCOME

Welcome to my blog about our new adventures about moving from sub-tropical coastal South Carolina (Charleston) to a city in the Sonoran Desert (Tucson). My first struggle is to learn to spell Tucson correctly as I tend to want to switch the c and the s!
Just a brief history of each city first:
Charleston (formerly Charles Town) was founded in 1670 and moved to its present location in 1680 by English settlers. Charleston was a focal point for the American Revolution (1176-1785) and was seized and was under British control through 1782. it was also the first state to secede from the Union and the first shot of the American Civil War was fired here on to Fort Sumter where the Union army was holed up. It is city filled with history and has been beautifully preserved. It is continually voted as one of the best cities to visit and the friendliest people.
Tucson, Arizona is located about 120 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the Mexican border. The Spanish colonizers tried to seize the land from the local Native tribes in the 1770's, It was officailly founded by the Irish exporer Hugh O'Connor in 1775 and is one of the oldest cities in the United States.Tucson is considered one of the "Mega-Trend" cities of the 21st century. It has the beauty of the Sonaran desert as well as being surrounded by five mountain ranges. It is also considered a very "artsy" area which is good for me. It is a huge area for photography and hopefully, will make me grow and push myself further in that field.
Tom will be working at Raytheon Missile Defense Systems. He will doing speechwriting and other executive communications duties.
We are looking forward to all of our opportunities and hope you will check back with my blog from time to time to see how "jen's journey" is proceeding.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Saturday in different time zones!











So Tom and I are still living in EST vs. MST. The worse new is that we in SC are changing to daylight savings time while he, in Arizona, is not changing to daylight savings time. Now our struggle to live in a two hour time difference will change to THREE hours!





Tom has every other Friday off (nice!). So yesterday he went house hunting for us yet again. He found a couple of houses he really liked that are older but a bit past our upper end of our price range. I will post some photos from his hunting tomorrow. Today he went to one of the municipal golf courses there. He said that for a "muni course" it was awesome! That's the second one he has played. Weather was sunny and in the low 70's. Perfect!





Here in Charleston I met up with a new photographer friend, Deanie. She and I met up and went to Folly Beach to go to a craft show. We first had lunch a little place called Taco Boy. It was very eclectic cool and was very crowded as the area was having a St. Patty's Day pub crawl. My food was very good. I had a shrimp tempura taco, black beans, and a japaleno cole slaw. I recommend it if you are out that way. And check out the bathrooms which are unisex. Then we went to the Tides of March craft show where I ran into lots of people I had not seen in a while. That was a





really nice treat! And I was spurred on to go by an e-mail of another new photographer friend I had met one day while working at Charleston Crafts. Laura is from Indiana and has a condo here and comes to Charleston when she can. She had a booth and I had the opportunity to see her beautiful work. I appreciate her letting me know about it so I could have this very nice day (although a bit chilly from the wind) seeing so many people today. And Deanie and I got to spend some extra time shooting a few photos together.





Thanks to all who helped me have a nice day when I am missing my hubby on the weekends!
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